Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things, the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.

and if Christ be not risen, vain indeed is our preaching, and vain also your faith.

have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

by which also ye are saved; if ye cleave to that word I have preached to you, except haply ye have believed in vain.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

but in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may instruct others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

who by the mouth of David thy servant saidst, Why do the heathen so furiously rage, and the people meditate vain things?

And when thou art at prayer, use not vain repetitions, like the heathen: for they imagine that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We too are mortals subject to the same infirmities with you; preaching to you the gospel, that ye should turn from these vain things unto the living God, who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things which are therein:

For if they who are of the law are heirs, faith becomes vain, and the promise is useless:

But in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines the commandments of men.

for he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou doest that which is evil, tremble! for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, an avenger to inflict wrath on him that practises what is evil.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

WE then as labourers with him, exhort you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying in you might not be vain in this matter; that as I have said, ye may be prepared.

Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride],

But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

and if Christ be not risen, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

Let us not be vain-glorious, irritating one another, envying one another.

And I went up then by revelation, and laid before them that gospel which I preach among the Heathen, but in private conference with those who were of the first importance, that haply I might not run, nor had run in vain.

I do not set at nought the grace of God; for if righteousness came by the law, truly Christ hath died in vain.

I am afraid for you, lest haply I have bestowed on you labour in vain.

For this cause also, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your fidelity, lest by any means the tempter had tempted you, and our labour should be in vain.

from which some, having swerved, have turned aside to vain babbling;

Let nothing be done contentiously or vain-gloriously; but in humility reckoning others superior to yourselves.

Beware that no man make a prey of you by means of philosophy and vain delusion, after the tradition of men, after the principles of the world, and not after Christ:

FOR ye yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in to you, that it was not in vain.

But profane vain bablings avoid: for they will proceed to greater lengths of impiety.

But foolish disquisitions, and genealogies, and disputes, and contentions about the law avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.

If any man thinks he is a religious character among you, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.